Check out also BBC Horizon's 1992 documentary Hitler's Bombhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt2373189/
Critical MassThe Real Story Of The Birth Of The Atomic Bomb And The Nuclear Age
by Carter P. Hydrick, 1998ISBN: 0975985310
Crates being loaded onto the submarine were marked U-235WolfgangHirschfeld reportedly watched the loading into the boat's cylindrical mine shafts of about 50 lead cubes with nine inch (230 mm) sides, with "U-235" painted on each.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-234#Cargo
09:20 - mentions some of the cargo - military blueprints and crated ME-262 jet fighter
16:50 Plutonium gets a mention
42:00 - Later in the documentary the cargo is on the manifest as 560kg (half a ton) of Uranium Oxide
So which was it? Uranium Oxide (mixed U-238 & U-235) or U-235?
The traditional history of the atomic bomb accepts as an unimportant footnote the arrival of U-234 on United States shores, and admits the U-boat carried uranium oxide.
The traditional history denies, however, that the uranium on board U-234 was enriched and therefore easily usable in an atomic bomb. The accepted history asserts there is no evidence that the uranium stocks of U-234 were transferred into the Manhattan Project, although recent suggestions have hinted that this may have occurred. And the traditional history asserts that the bomb components on board U-234 arrived too late to be included in the atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan. The documentation indicates quite differently on all accounts.
Before U-234 had landed at Portsmouth - before it even left Europe - United States and British intelligence knew U-234 was on a mission to Japan and that it carried important passengers and cargo.iv A portion of the cargo, especially, was of a singular nature. According to U-234's chief radio operator, Wolfgang Hirschfeld, who witnessed the loading of the U-boat: 'At the time I didn't see how many containers there were, but the Loading Manifest showed ten. Each case was a cube, possibly steel and lead, nine inches along each side and enormously heavy. Once the inscription U235 had been painted on the wrapping of a package, it would then be carried over to the knot of crewmen under the supervision of Sub-Lt Pfaff and the boatswain, Peter Scholch, and stowed in one of the six vertical mineshafts.'
Hirschfeld's straightforward account of the uranium being "highly radioactive" - he later witnessed the storage tubes being tested with Geiger counters,vi - and labeled "U235" provides profoundly important information about this cargo. U235 is the scientific designation of enriched uranium - the type of uranium required to fuel an atomic bomb. On the second page of U-234's cargo manifest, halfway down the page, was the entry "10 cases, 560 kilograms, uranium oxide."
Whoever first read the entry and understood the frightening capabilities and potential purpose of uranium must have been stunned by the entry.
The identification that the uranium was stowed in gold-lined cylinders and that it would become "sensitive and dangerous" when unpacked provides clear substantiation of radio officer Hirschfeld's assertion that the uranium was labeled with the title U235. Uranium that has had its proportion of the isotope U235 increased compared to the more common isotope of uranium, U238, is known as enriched uranium. When that enrichment becomes 70 percent or above, it is bomb-grade uranium. The process of enriching uranium during the war was highly technical and very expensive - it still is.
Upon first reading that the uranium on board U-234 was stored in gold-lined cylinders, this author tracked down Clarence Larsen, former director of the leading uranium enrichment process at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where the Manhattan Project's uranium enrichment facilities were housed. In a telephone conversation, I asked Mr. Larsen what, if anything, would be the purpose of shipping uranium in gold-lined containers.
Mr. Larsen remembered that the Oak Ridge program used gold trays when working with enriched uranium. He explained that, because uranium enrichment was a very costly process, enriched uranium needed to be protected jealously, but because it is very corrosive, it is easily invaded by any but the most stable materials, and would then become contaminated. To prevent the loss to contamination of the invaluable enriched uranium, gold was used. Gold is one of the most stable substances on earth. While expensive, Mr. Larsen explained, the cost of gold was a drop in the bucket compared to the value of enriched uranium. Would raw uranium, rather than enriched uranium, be stored in gold containers, I asked? Not likely, Mr. Larsen responded. The value of raw uranium is, and was at the time, inconsequential compared to the cost of gold.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/atomicbomb/chap01.htm

published:07 Jul 2013

views:63555

Nuclear technology is constantly in the news. So how exactly do you make nuclear fuel?
Special thanks to Life Noggin for animating this video! Check them out: http://www.youtube.com/lifenoggin
Read More:
Fuel Cycle Facilities
http://www.nrc.gov/materials/fuel-cycle-fac.html
“The U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulates uranium recovery facilities that mill uranium; fuel cycle facilities that convert, enrich, and fabricate it into fuel for use in nuclear reactors, and deconversion facilities that process the depleted uranium hexafluoride for disposal.”
Uranium processing
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/619232/uranium-processing
“Uranium (U), although very dense (19.1 grams per cubic centimetre), is a relatively weak, nonrefractory metal. Indeed, the metallic properties of uranium appear to be intermediate between those of silver and other true metals and those of the nonmetallic elements, so that it is not valued for structural applications.”
About Nuclear Fuel Cycle
https://infcis.iaea.org/NFCIS/About.cshtml
“Nuclear Fuel Cycle can be defined as the set of processes to make use of nuclear materials and to return it to normal state. It starts with the mining of unused nuclear materials from the nature and ends with the safe disposal of used nuclear material in the nature.”
Nuclear Fuel Processes
http://www.nei.org/Knowledge-Center/Nuclear-Fuel-Processes
“Nuclear power plants do not burn any fuel. Instead, they use uranium fuel, consisting of solid ceramic pellets, to produce electricity through a process called fission.”
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published:02 May 2015

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In this informational video, I will introduce you to what Uranium is, its properties (both physical and chemical), the history and discovery around it, and its uses in the modern day. The information moves quickly, so make sure to pay attention!
This is just a brief explanation as to what Uranium is, there is a lot more information on Uranium on the Internet.
Sorry for messing up the audio for the first half of the video, and also for any mess-ups when converting text to speech with my voice.
Sources:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B08SrD985jkQY0pVZHpKZU9YUE0
Disclaimer: As mentioned in the video, I do not own any content used here, and do not claim any of it as my own work, other than my voice. This is a simple research project I did for my Chemistry class, I do not intend to be infringing on copyrights.
Music: Show Me How This ThingWorks by Cracker

published:19 Apr 2016

views:306586

In this video, uranium is concentrated from its ore through a series of precipitations, which eventually yields a form of yellowcake, uranyl peroxide. Please remember to take proper precautions when working with a radioactive heavy metal such as uranium and its salts. Gloves, eye protection, and a dust mask are necessary.
For processing, uranium ore is dissolved into hydrochloric acid, oxidized with bleach, precipitated with ammonia, filtered, leached with carbonate, filtered, neutralized with hydrochloric acid, precipitated with hydrogen peroxide, and filtered.
The uranium produced by this procedure could in no way be considered weapons-grade or enriched. The enrichment process requires millions of dollars in investment and is impossible for any entity short of a national government to produce. This uranium maintains the isotopic ratio found within the earth's crust and is actually less radioactive than the ore from which it was processed due to the absence of more radioactive decay products of uranium, such as radium, protactinium, and other unstable nuclei produced by the spontaneous fission of U238.
Though ore chemistry varies by locality, this process is generalized for any uranium on an acid-soluble matrix.
This process was inspired by and based off of: http://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/uranium-chemistry/

i went to saxony (a part of germany) to find uranium 'in the wild' at abandoned uranium mines, dig sites and stockpiles.
due to the increased uranium content in the earth's surface, saxony is a lot more irradiated than berlin, as you can clearly see in the video (although there are other means of contamination - such as the chernobyl accident - that can also be a cause for increased background radiation).
this video also includes a visit to the uranium mine 'MARKUS SEMMLER' and, of course, me digging for (and finding some) uranium minerals. =)
the radioactive minerals i found are uranocircite and autunite. they now have a new caring and loving home at my place.
ps: i know it's not just uranium in there but a lot of other radionuclides that are within the decay chain, as well as the endproduct - stable lead. i just called it all 'uranium' for simplicity. :-)
MUSIC: KRAFTWERK - RADIOACTIVITY
www.kraftwerk.de

Because of Uranium's long half-life, it can be used to find the age of earth. Uranium can also be used to make coloured glass that glow under UV light and it's glass form is the perfect colour for dentures.
More importantly, Uranium is used in power plants. 1 KG of U-235 can produce 80 TJ of energy which is enough energy to drive your car as you normally do for 1000 years. U-235 in power plants are only 3% enriched (i.e. there is only 3% U-235 in the rod) which is small compared to 90% needed in nuclear weapons.
A nuclear bomb uses 7-13 KG of U-235 which is a lot of concentrated energy. A thermonuclear bomb is just like a nuclear (fission) bomb but with a cylinder of hydrogen that gets compressed by the Uranium explosion. This compression causes the hydrogen to undergo fusion reaction.
Before Uranium can be used in a nuclear reaction though, it must first be refined. The modern refining methods require centrifuges that push the heavier U-238 to the edges of and the lighter U-235 to stay in the middle. It costs a lot of money to build and maintain these centrifuges which is why nuclear power is mainly limited to wealthier countries.
Depleted uranium (DU) has low amounts of radioactivity. Because of DU's high density, it is used for bullets, armour plating, and even plating to prevent xrays from penetrating walls.

published:13 May 2013

views:68067

Stanford University researchers have found a new way to extract particles of Uranium from seawater. Could this bring us closer to sustainable nuclear power?
The Internet Is Overreacting About Fukushima's Radiation, Here's Why - https://youtu.be/_jVm0N2dnhI
Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI
Read More:
Seawater Could Provide an 'Endless' Source of Uranium for Nuclear Plants
http://www.seeker.com/seawater-could-provide-an-endless-source-of-uranium-for-nuclear-plants-2276514732.html
"You might be surprised to find out that very small amounts of uranium are found in seawater. A liter of seawater contains about a grain of salt's worth of the material. In a new article in the journal NatureEnergy, a team of researchers from Stanford detailed their novel technique for extracting it, which could lead to a practical approach to pull uranium from seawater instead of mining it (and then refining it) to power a nuclear power plant."
Nuclear FuelFrom the Sea
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/nuclear-fuel-from-the-sea
"Next time you go to the beach, think about this: You're swimming in nuclear fuel. Our oceans contain an estimated 4.5 billion metric tons of uranium, diluted down to a minuscule 3.3 parts per billion. The idea of extracting uranium from seawater has been kicking around for decades now, but the materials and processes to do so may finally be economically viable."
We're One Step Closer to Pulling Nuclear Fuel Straight Out of the Ocean
http://www.sciencealert.com/we-re-one-step-closer-to-pulling-nuclear-fuel-straight-out-of-the-ocean
"Pulling uranium out of seawater could be a cost-effective way to source nuclear fuel, scientists have found, and the technique could pave the way for coastal countries to switch to nuclear power. With the International Atomic Energy Agency currently predicting an increase of up to 68 percent in nuclear power production over the next 15 years, finding a new, more environmentally friendly source of uranium - the most critical ingredient in nuclear power - could give this alternative to fossil fuels a boost."
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published:28 Feb 2017

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We already know that uranium is the basis of most of nuclear reactions. It consists of two major isotopes: the 235 and 238. Uranium 238 can be found abundantly in nature, while 235 isotope is much more rare. Ironically, the rare Uranium 235 is the one needed for most nuclear reactions. Fortunately, the separation of uranium isotope is very complicated, that is why only few Countries can afford it. Meanwhile, chemists and physicists prefer to use depleted form of uranium for laboratory use since it only contains about 0,2% of real thing.

published:05 Sep 2012

views:6495

whats up guys in this video I will show you how to download pokemon uranium on windows/mac. Updated and with no lag at all! The links are down there!
Winrar: http://www.rarlab.com/download.htmPokemon Uranium: https://mega.nz/#!TZg11JKY!R1W9N7mzYlRFgqbeKXG5IFXwO3Y3DyrNtLTh0G2u1SM

published:02 Jan 2017

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See some real life uranium in this new video about element number 92 - the so-called "bogeyman of the periodic table".
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The show is a documentary showing how common, everyday items (including clothing and accessories like alligator handbags, foodstuffs like bubble gum, industrial products such as engines, musical instruments such as guitars, and sporting goods such as snowboards) are manufactured.

How It's Made is filmed without exploratory text to simplify overdubbing in different languages. For example, the show avoids showing a narrator or host onscreen, does not often have employees of featured companies speak on camera, and keeps human interaction with the manufacturing process to a bare minimum.

An off-screen narrator explains each process, often with humorous puns. Each half-hour show usually has three or four main segments, with each product getting a demonstration of approximately five minutes; exceptions are allowed in the allotted time for more complex products. Usually, every show has at least one product with a historic background note preceding it: Showing how and where the product originated, and what people used before it.

Check out also BBC Horizon's 1992 documentary Hitler's Bombhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt2373189/
Critical MassThe Real Story Of The Birth Of The Atomic Bomb And The Nuclear Age
by Carter P. Hydrick, 1998ISBN: 0975985310
Crates being loaded onto the submarine were marked U-235WolfgangHirschfeld reportedly watched the loading into the boat's cylindrical mine shafts of about 50 lead cubes with nine inch (230 mm) sides, with "U-235" painted on each.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-234#Cargo
09:20 - mentions some of the cargo - military blueprints and crated ME-262 jet fighter
16:50 Plutonium gets a mention
42:00 - Later in the documentary the cargo is on the manifest as 560kg (half a ton) of Uranium Oxide
So which was it? Uranium Oxide (mixed U-238 & U-235) or U-235?
The traditional history of the atomic bomb accepts as an unimportant footnote the arrival of U-234 on United States shores, and admits the U-boat carried uranium oxide.
The traditional history denies, however, that the uranium on board U-234 was enriched and therefore easily usable in an atomic bomb. The accepted history asserts there is no evidence that the uranium stocks of U-234 were transferred into the Manhattan Project, although recent suggestions have hinted that this may have occurred. And the traditional history asserts that the bomb components on board U-234 arrived too late to be included in the atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan. The documentation indicates quite differently on all accounts.
Before U-234 had landed at Portsmouth - before it even left Europe - United States and British intelligence knew U-234 was on a mission to Japan and that it carried important passengers and cargo.iv A portion of the cargo, especially, was of a singular nature. According to U-234's chief radio operator, Wolfgang Hirschfeld, who witnessed the loading of the U-boat: 'At the time I didn't see how many containers there were, but the Loading Manifest showed ten. Each case was a cube, possibly steel and lead, nine inches along each side and enormously heavy. Once the inscription U235 had been painted on the wrapping of a package, it would then be carried over to the knot of crewmen under the supervision of Sub-Lt Pfaff and the boatswain, Peter Scholch, and stowed in one of the six vertical mineshafts.'
Hirschfeld's straightforward account of the uranium being "highly radioactive" - he later witnessed the storage tubes being tested with Geiger counters,vi - and labeled "U235" provides profoundly important information about this cargo. U235 is the scientific designation of enriched uranium - the type of uranium required to fuel an atomic bomb. On the second page of U-234's cargo manifest, halfway down the page, was the entry "10 cases, 560 kilograms, uranium oxide."
Whoever first read the entry and understood the frightening capabilities and potential purpose of uranium must have been stunned by the entry.
The identification that the uranium was stowed in gold-lined cylinders and that it would become "sensitive and dangerous" when unpacked provides clear substantiation of radio officer Hirschfeld's assertion that the uranium was labeled with the title U235. Uranium that has had its proportion of the isotope U235 increased compared to the more common isotope of uranium, U238, is known as enriched uranium. When that enrichment becomes 70 percent or above, it is bomb-grade uranium. The process of enriching uranium during the war was highly technical and very expensive - it still is.
Upon first reading that the uranium on board U-234 was stored in gold-lined cylinders, this author tracked down Clarence Larsen, former director of the leading uranium enrichment process at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where the Manhattan Project's uranium enrichment facilities were housed. In a telephone conversation, I asked Mr. Larsen what, if anything, would be the purpose of shipping uranium in gold-lined containers.
Mr. Larsen remembered that the Oak Ridge program used gold trays when working with enriched uranium. He explained that, because uranium enrichment was a very costly process, enriched uranium needed to be protected jealously, but because it is very corrosive, it is easily invaded by any but the most stable materials, and would then become contaminated. To prevent the loss to contamination of the invaluable enriched uranium, gold was used. Gold is one of the most stable substances on earth. While expensive, Mr. Larsen explained, the cost of gold was a drop in the bucket compared to the value of enriched uranium. Would raw uranium, rather than enriched uranium, be stored in gold containers, I asked? Not likely, Mr. Larsen responded. The value of raw uranium is, and was at the time, inconsequential compared to the cost of gold.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/atomicbomb/chap01.htm

5:51

How Uranium Becomes Nuclear Fuel

How Uranium Becomes Nuclear Fuel

How Uranium Becomes Nuclear Fuel

Nuclear technology is constantly in the news. So how exactly do you make nuclear fuel?
Special thanks to Life Noggin for animating this video! Check them out: http://www.youtube.com/lifenoggin
Read More:
Fuel Cycle Facilities
http://www.nrc.gov/materials/fuel-cycle-fac.html
“The U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulates uranium recovery facilities that mill uranium; fuel cycle facilities that convert, enrich, and fabricate it into fuel for use in nuclear reactors, and deconversion facilities that process the depleted uranium hexafluoride for disposal.”
Uranium processing
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/619232/uranium-processing
“Uranium (U), although very dense (19.1 grams per cubic centimetre), is a relatively weak, nonrefractory metal. Indeed, the metallic properties of uranium appear to be intermediate between those of silver and other true metals and those of the nonmetallic elements, so that it is not valued for structural applications.”
About Nuclear Fuel Cycle
https://infcis.iaea.org/NFCIS/About.cshtml
“Nuclear Fuel Cycle can be defined as the set of processes to make use of nuclear materials and to return it to normal state. It starts with the mining of unused nuclear materials from the nature and ends with the safe disposal of used nuclear material in the nature.”
Nuclear Fuel Processes
http://www.nei.org/Knowledge-Center/Nuclear-Fuel-Processes
“Nuclear power plants do not burn any fuel. Instead, they use uranium fuel, consisting of solid ceramic pellets, to produce electricity through a process called fission.”
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2:37

What is Uranium?

What is Uranium?

What is Uranium?

In this informational video, I will introduce you to what Uranium is, its properties (both physical and chemical), the history and discovery around it, and its uses in the modern day. The information moves quickly, so make sure to pay attention!
This is just a brief explanation as to what Uranium is, there is a lot more information on Uranium on the Internet.
Sorry for messing up the audio for the first half of the video, and also for any mess-ups when converting text to speech with my voice.
Sources:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B08SrD985jkQY0pVZHpKZU9YUE0
Disclaimer: As mentioned in the video, I do not own any content used here, and do not claim any of it as my own work, other than my voice. This is a simple research project I did for my Chemistry class, I do not intend to be infringing on copyrights.
Music: Show Me How This ThingWorks by Cracker

6:43

Isolation of Uranium Yellowcake from Ore

Isolation of Uranium Yellowcake from Ore

Isolation of Uranium Yellowcake from Ore

In this video, uranium is concentrated from its ore through a series of precipitations, which eventually yields a form of yellowcake, uranyl peroxide. Please remember to take proper precautions when working with a radioactive heavy metal such as uranium and its salts. Gloves, eye protection, and a dust mask are necessary.
For processing, uranium ore is dissolved into hydrochloric acid, oxidized with bleach, precipitated with ammonia, filtered, leached with carbonate, filtered, neutralized with hydrochloric acid, precipitated with hydrogen peroxide, and filtered.
The uranium produced by this procedure could in no way be considered weapons-grade or enriched. The enrichment process requires millions of dollars in investment and is impossible for any entity short of a national government to produce. This uranium maintains the isotopic ratio found within the earth's crust and is actually less radioactive than the ore from which it was processed due to the absence of more radioactive decay products of uranium, such as radium, protactinium, and other unstable nuclei produced by the spontaneous fission of U238.
Though ore chemistry varies by locality, this process is generalized for any uranium on an acid-soluble matrix.
This process was inspired by and based off of: http://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/uranium-chemistry/

5:08

How It's Made Uranium P1

How It's Made Uranium P1

How It's Made Uranium P1

finding uranium in nature

i went to saxony (a part of germany) to find uranium 'in the wild' at abandoned uranium mines, dig sites and stockpiles.
due to the increased uranium content in the earth's surface, saxony is a lot more irradiated than berlin, as you can clearly see in the video (although there are other means of contamination - such as the chernobyl accident - that can also be a cause for increased background radiation).
this video also includes a visit to the uranium mine 'MARKUS SEMMLER' and, of course, me digging for (and finding some) uranium minerals. =)
the radioactive minerals i found are uranocircite and autunite. they now have a new caring and loving home at my place.
ps: i know it's not just uranium in there but a lot of other radionuclides that are within the decay chain, as well as the endproduct - stable lead. i just called it all 'uranium' for simplicity. :-)
MUSIC: KRAFTWERK - RADIOACTIVITY
www.kraftwerk.de

5:13

How It's Made Uranium P2

How It's Made Uranium P2

How It's Made Uranium P2

What can you do with 1 Kg of uranium?

Because of Uranium's long half-life, it can be used to find the age of earth. Uranium can also be used to make coloured glass that glow under UV light and it's glass form is the perfect colour for dentures.
More importantly, Uranium is used in power plants. 1 KG of U-235 can produce 80 TJ of energy which is enough energy to drive your car as you normally do for 1000 years. U-235 in power plants are only 3% enriched (i.e. there is only 3% U-235 in the rod) which is small compared to 90% needed in nuclear weapons.
A nuclear bomb uses 7-13 KG of U-235 which is a lot of concentrated energy. A thermonuclear bomb is just like a nuclear (fission) bomb but with a cylinder of hydrogen that gets compressed by the Uranium explosion. This compression causes the hydrogen to undergo fusion reaction.
Before Uranium can be used in a nuclear reaction though, it must first be refined. The modern refining methods require centrifuges that push the heavier U-238 to the edges of and the lighter U-235 to stay in the middle. It costs a lot of money to build and maintain these centrifuges which is why nuclear power is mainly limited to wealthier countries.
Depleted uranium (DU) has low amounts of radioactivity. Because of DU's high density, it is used for bullets, armour plating, and even plating to prevent xrays from penetrating walls.

3:41

The Ocean Holds Enough Uranium To Power The Planet For 10,000 Years

The Ocean Holds Enough Uranium To Power The Planet For 10,000 Years

The Ocean Holds Enough Uranium To Power The Planet For 10,000 Years

Stanford University researchers have found a new way to extract particles of Uranium from seawater. Could this bring us closer to sustainable nuclear power?
The Internet Is Overreacting About Fukushima's Radiation, Here's Why - https://youtu.be/_jVm0N2dnhI
Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI
Read More:
Seawater Could Provide an 'Endless' Source of Uranium for Nuclear Plants
http://www.seeker.com/seawater-could-provide-an-endless-source-of-uranium-for-nuclear-plants-2276514732.html
"You might be surprised to find out that very small amounts of uranium are found in seawater. A liter of seawater contains about a grain of salt's worth of the material. In a new article in the journal NatureEnergy, a team of researchers from Stanford detailed their novel technique for extracting it, which could lead to a practical approach to pull uranium from seawater instead of mining it (and then refining it) to power a nuclear power plant."
Nuclear FuelFrom the Sea
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/nuclear-fuel-from-the-sea
"Next time you go to the beach, think about this: You're swimming in nuclear fuel. Our oceans contain an estimated 4.5 billion metric tons of uranium, diluted down to a minuscule 3.3 parts per billion. The idea of extracting uranium from seawater has been kicking around for decades now, but the materials and processes to do so may finally be economically viable."
We're One Step Closer to Pulling Nuclear Fuel Straight Out of the Ocean
http://www.sciencealert.com/we-re-one-step-closer-to-pulling-nuclear-fuel-straight-out-of-the-ocean
"Pulling uranium out of seawater could be a cost-effective way to source nuclear fuel, scientists have found, and the technique could pave the way for coastal countries to switch to nuclear power. With the International Atomic Energy Agency currently predicting an increase of up to 68 percent in nuclear power production over the next 15 years, finding a new, more environmentally friendly source of uranium - the most critical ingredient in nuclear power - could give this alternative to fossil fuels a boost."
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4:44

Uranium: The Boogieman of Rare Metals

Uranium: The Boogieman of Rare Metals

Uranium: The Boogieman of Rare Metals

We already know that uranium is the basis of most of nuclear reactions. It consists of two major isotopes: the 235 and 238. Uranium 238 can be found abundantly in nature, while 235 isotope is much more rare. Ironically, the rare Uranium 235 is the one needed for most nuclear reactions. Fortunately, the separation of uranium isotope is very complicated, that is why only few Countries can afford it. Meanwhile, chemists and physicists prefer to use depleted form of uranium for laboratory use since it only contains about 0,2% of real thing.

2:48

HOW TO DOWNLOAD POKEMON URANIUM ON WINDOWS/MAC 2017 (UPDATED AND NO LAG)

HOW TO DOWNLOAD POKEMON URANIUM ON WINDOWS/MAC 2017 (UPDATED AND NO LAG)

HOW TO DOWNLOAD POKEMON URANIUM ON WINDOWS/MAC 2017 (UPDATED AND NO LAG)

whats up guys in this video I will show you how to download pokemon uranium on windows/mac. Updated and with no lag at all! The links are down there!
Winrar: http://www.rarlab.com/download.htmPokemon Uranium: https://mega.nz/#!TZg11JKY!R1W9N7mzYlRFgqbeKXG5IFXwO3Y3DyrNtLTh0G2u1SM

6:03

Uranium - Periodic Table of Videos

Uranium - Periodic Table of Videos

Uranium - Periodic Table of Videos

See some real life uranium in this new video about element number 92 - the so-called "bogeyman of the periodic table".
More links in description below ↓↓↓
Our older video about uranim is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02DVY0_SFuw
SupportPeriodic Videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/periodicvideos
A video on every element: http://bit.ly/118elements
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Pokemon Uranium Is Back! W/ Exclusive Interview!

Its official, the servers are back up and development will continue!
Website: http://pokemonuranium.org/
Discord: https://discord.gg/uranium
For more be sure to check out our website at
www.itsindiereview.weebly.com For the full interview and more questions, click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_mWP01ueoQ

44:49

ORE DEPOSITS 101 - Part 9 - Uranium Deposits

ORE DEPOSITS 101 - Part 9 - Uranium Deposits

ORE DEPOSITS 101 - Part 9 - Uranium Deposits

Part 9 of an 11 part series introducing ore deposit geology to non-technical people. This one covers the uranium deposits, how they were discovered, how they formed and how they are mined.

How Uranium Becomes Nuclear Fuel

Nuclear technology is constantly in the news. So how exactly do you make nuclear fuel?
Special thanks to Life Noggin for animating this video! Check them out: http://www.youtube.com/lifenoggin
Read More:
Fuel Cycle Facilities
http://www.nrc.gov/materials/fuel-cycle-fac.html
“The U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulates uranium recovery facilities that mill uranium; fuel cycle facilities that convert, enrich, and fabricate it into fuel for use in nuclear reactors, and deconversion facilities that process the depleted uranium hexafluoride for disposal.”
Uranium processing
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/619232/uranium-processing
“Uranium (U), although very dense (19.1 grams per cubic centimetre), is a relatively weak, nonrefractory metal. Indeed, the metal...

published: 02 May 2015

What is Uranium?

In this informational video, I will introduce you to what Uranium is, its properties (both physical and chemical), the history and discovery around it, and its uses in the modern day. The information moves quickly, so make sure to pay attention!
This is just a brief explanation as to what Uranium is, there is a lot more information on Uranium on the Internet.
Sorry for messing up the audio for the first half of the video, and also for any mess-ups when converting text to speech with my voice.
Sources:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B08SrD985jkQY0pVZHpKZU9YUE0
Disclaimer: As mentioned in the video, I do not own any content used here, and do not claim any of it as my own work, other than my voice. This is a simple research project I did for my Chemistry class, I do not intend to be i...

published: 19 Apr 2016

Isolation of Uranium Yellowcake from Ore

In this video, uranium is concentrated from its ore through a series of precipitations, which eventually yields a form of yellowcake, uranyl peroxide. Please remember to take proper precautions when working with a radioactive heavy metal such as uranium and its salts. Gloves, eye protection, and a dust mask are necessary.
For processing, uranium ore is dissolved into hydrochloric acid, oxidized with bleach, precipitated with ammonia, filtered, leached with carbonate, filtered, neutralized with hydrochloric acid, precipitated with hydrogen peroxide, and filtered.
The uranium produced by this procedure could in no way be considered weapons-grade or enriched. The enrichment process requires millions of dollars in investment and is impossible for any entity short of a national governmen...

published: 23 Dec 2010

How It's Made Uranium P1

finding uranium in nature

i went to saxony (a part of germany) to find uranium 'in the wild' at abandoned uranium mines, dig sites and stockpiles.
due to the increased uranium content in the earth's surface, saxony is a lot more irradiated than berlin, as you can clearly see in the video (although there are other means of contamination - such as the chernobyl accident - that can also be a cause for increased background radiation).
this video also includes a visit to the uranium mine 'MARKUS SEMMLER' and, of course, me digging for (and finding some) uranium minerals. =)
the radioactive minerals i found are uranocircite and autunite. they now have a new caring and loving home at my place.
ps: i know it's not just uranium in there but a lot of other radionuclides that are within the decay chain, as well as t...

published: 28 Oct 2008

How It's Made Uranium P2

What can you do with 1 Kg of uranium?

Because of Uranium's long half-life, it can be used to find the age of earth. Uranium can also be used to make coloured glass that glow under UV light and it's glass form is the perfect colour for dentures.
More importantly, Uranium is used in power plants. 1 KG of U-235 can produce 80 TJ of energy which is enough energy to drive your car as you normally do for 1000 years. U-235 in power plants are only 3% enriched (i.e. there is only 3% U-235 in the rod) which is small compared to 90% needed in nuclear weapons.
A nuclear bomb uses 7-13 KG of U-235 which is a lot of concentrated energy. A thermonuclear bomb is just like a nuclear (fission) bomb but with a cylinder of hydrogen that gets compressed by the Uranium explosion. This compression causes the hydrogen to undergo fusion reaction.
...

published: 13 May 2013

The Ocean Holds Enough Uranium To Power The Planet For 10,000 Years

Stanford University researchers have found a new way to extract particles of Uranium from seawater. Could this bring us closer to sustainable nuclear power?
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Seawater Could Provide an 'Endless' Source of Uranium for Nuclear Plants
http://www.seeker.com/seawater-could-provide-an-endless-source-of-uranium-for-nuclear-plants-2276514732.html
"You might be surprised to find out that very small amounts of uranium are found in seawater. A liter of seawater contains about a grain of salt's worth of the material. In a new article in the journal NatureEnergy, a team of researchers from Stanford detailed their novel...

published: 28 Feb 2017

Uranium: The Boogieman of Rare Metals

We already know that uranium is the basis of most of nuclear reactions. It consists of two major isotopes: the 235 and 238. Uranium 238 can be found abundantly in nature, while 235 isotope is much more rare. Ironically, the rare Uranium 235 is the one needed for most nuclear reactions. Fortunately, the separation of uranium isotope is very complicated, that is why only few Countries can afford it. Meanwhile, chemists and physicists prefer to use depleted form of uranium for laboratory use since it only contains about 0,2% of real thing.

published: 05 Sep 2012

HOW TO DOWNLOAD POKEMON URANIUM ON WINDOWS/MAC 2017 (UPDATED AND NO LAG)

whats up guys in this video I will show you how to download pokemon uranium on windows/mac. Updated and with no lag at all! The links are down there!
Winrar: http://www.rarlab.com/download.htmPokemon Uranium: https://mega.nz/#!TZg11JKY!R1W9N7mzYlRFgqbeKXG5IFXwO3Y3DyrNtLTh0G2u1SM

published: 02 Jan 2017

Uranium - Periodic Table of Videos

See some real life uranium in this new video about element number 92 - the so-called "bogeyman of the periodic table".
More links in description below ↓↓↓
Our older video about uranim is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02DVY0_SFuw
SupportPeriodic Videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/periodicvideos
A video on every element: http://bit.ly/118elements
More at http://www.periodicvideos.com/
Follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/periodicvideos
And on Twitter at http://twitter.com/periodicvideos
From the School of Chemistry at The University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/NottChem
Periodic Videos films are by video journalist Brady Haran: http://www.bradyharanblog.com
JoinBrady's mailing list for updates and extra stuff --- http://eepurl.com/YdjL9

Pokemon Uranium Is Back! W/ Exclusive Interview!

Its official, the servers are back up and development will continue!
Website: http://pokemonuranium.org/
Discord: https://discord.gg/uranium
For more be sure to check out our website at
www.itsindiereview.weebly.com For the full interview and more questions, click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_mWP01ueoQ

published: 06 Jun 2017

ORE DEPOSITS 101 - Part 9 - Uranium Deposits

Part 9 of an 11 part series introducing ore deposit geology to non-technical people. This one covers the uranium deposits, how they were discovered, how they formed and how they are mined.

Check out also BBC Horizon's 1992 documentary Hitler's Bombhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt2373189/
Critical MassThe Real Story Of The Birth Of The Atomic Bomb And The Nuclear Age
by Carter P. Hydrick, 1998ISBN: 0975985310
Crates being loaded onto the submarine were marked U-235WolfgangHirschfeld reportedly watched the loading into the boat's cylindrical mine shafts of about 50 lead cubes with nine inch (230 mm) sides, with "U-235" painted on each.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-234#Cargo
09:20 - mentions some of the cargo - military blueprints and crated ME-262 jet fighter
16:50 Plutonium gets a mention
42:00 - Later in the documentary the cargo is on the manifest as 560kg (half a ton) of Uranium Oxide
So which was it? Uranium Oxide (mixed U-238 & U-235) or U-235?
The traditional history of the atomic bomb accepts as an unimportant footnote the arrival of U-234 on United States shores, and admits the U-boat carried uranium oxide.
The traditional history denies, however, that the uranium on board U-234 was enriched and therefore easily usable in an atomic bomb. The accepted history asserts there is no evidence that the uranium stocks of U-234 were transferred into the Manhattan Project, although recent suggestions have hinted that this may have occurred. And the traditional history asserts that the bomb components on board U-234 arrived too late to be included in the atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan. The documentation indicates quite differently on all accounts.
Before U-234 had landed at Portsmouth - before it even left Europe - United States and British intelligence knew U-234 was on a mission to Japan and that it carried important passengers and cargo.iv A portion of the cargo, especially, was of a singular nature. According to U-234's chief radio operator, Wolfgang Hirschfeld, who witnessed the loading of the U-boat: 'At the time I didn't see how many containers there were, but the Loading Manifest showed ten. Each case was a cube, possibly steel and lead, nine inches along each side and enormously heavy. Once the inscription U235 had been painted on the wrapping of a package, it would then be carried over to the knot of crewmen under the supervision of Sub-Lt Pfaff and the boatswain, Peter Scholch, and stowed in one of the six vertical mineshafts.'
Hirschfeld's straightforward account of the uranium being "highly radioactive" - he later witnessed the storage tubes being tested with Geiger counters,vi - and labeled "U235" provides profoundly important information about this cargo. U235 is the scientific designation of enriched uranium - the type of uranium required to fuel an atomic bomb. On the second page of U-234's cargo manifest, halfway down the page, was the entry "10 cases, 560 kilograms, uranium oxide."
Whoever first read the entry and understood the frightening capabilities and potential purpose of uranium must have been stunned by the entry.
The identification that the uranium was stowed in gold-lined cylinders and that it would become "sensitive and dangerous" when unpacked provides clear substantiation of radio officer Hirschfeld's assertion that the uranium was labeled with the title U235. Uranium that has had its proportion of the isotope U235 increased compared to the more common isotope of uranium, U238, is known as enriched uranium. When that enrichment becomes 70 percent or above, it is bomb-grade uranium. The process of enriching uranium during the war was highly technical and very expensive - it still is.
Upon first reading that the uranium on board U-234 was stored in gold-lined cylinders, this author tracked down Clarence Larsen, former director of the leading uranium enrichment process at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where the Manhattan Project's uranium enrichment facilities were housed. In a telephone conversation, I asked Mr. Larsen what, if anything, would be the purpose of shipping uranium in gold-lined containers.
Mr. Larsen remembered that the Oak Ridge program used gold trays when working with enriched uranium. He explained that, because uranium enrichment was a very costly process, enriched uranium needed to be protected jealously, but because it is very corrosive, it is easily invaded by any but the most stable materials, and would then become contaminated. To prevent the loss to contamination of the invaluable enriched uranium, gold was used. Gold is one of the most stable substances on earth. While expensive, Mr. Larsen explained, the cost of gold was a drop in the bucket compared to the value of enriched uranium. Would raw uranium, rather than enriched uranium, be stored in gold containers, I asked? Not likely, Mr. Larsen responded. The value of raw uranium is, and was at the time, inconsequential compared to the cost of gold.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/atomicbomb/chap01.htm

Check out also BBC Horizon's 1992 documentary Hitler's Bombhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt2373189/
Critical MassThe Real Story Of The Birth Of The Atomic Bomb And The Nuclear Age
by Carter P. Hydrick, 1998ISBN: 0975985310
Crates being loaded onto the submarine were marked U-235WolfgangHirschfeld reportedly watched the loading into the boat's cylindrical mine shafts of about 50 lead cubes with nine inch (230 mm) sides, with "U-235" painted on each.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-234#Cargo
09:20 - mentions some of the cargo - military blueprints and crated ME-262 jet fighter
16:50 Plutonium gets a mention
42:00 - Later in the documentary the cargo is on the manifest as 560kg (half a ton) of Uranium Oxide
So which was it? Uranium Oxide (mixed U-238 & U-235) or U-235?
The traditional history of the atomic bomb accepts as an unimportant footnote the arrival of U-234 on United States shores, and admits the U-boat carried uranium oxide.
The traditional history denies, however, that the uranium on board U-234 was enriched and therefore easily usable in an atomic bomb. The accepted history asserts there is no evidence that the uranium stocks of U-234 were transferred into the Manhattan Project, although recent suggestions have hinted that this may have occurred. And the traditional history asserts that the bomb components on board U-234 arrived too late to be included in the atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan. The documentation indicates quite differently on all accounts.
Before U-234 had landed at Portsmouth - before it even left Europe - United States and British intelligence knew U-234 was on a mission to Japan and that it carried important passengers and cargo.iv A portion of the cargo, especially, was of a singular nature. According to U-234's chief radio operator, Wolfgang Hirschfeld, who witnessed the loading of the U-boat: 'At the time I didn't see how many containers there were, but the Loading Manifest showed ten. Each case was a cube, possibly steel and lead, nine inches along each side and enormously heavy. Once the inscription U235 had been painted on the wrapping of a package, it would then be carried over to the knot of crewmen under the supervision of Sub-Lt Pfaff and the boatswain, Peter Scholch, and stowed in one of the six vertical mineshafts.'
Hirschfeld's straightforward account of the uranium being "highly radioactive" - he later witnessed the storage tubes being tested with Geiger counters,vi - and labeled "U235" provides profoundly important information about this cargo. U235 is the scientific designation of enriched uranium - the type of uranium required to fuel an atomic bomb. On the second page of U-234's cargo manifest, halfway down the page, was the entry "10 cases, 560 kilograms, uranium oxide."
Whoever first read the entry and understood the frightening capabilities and potential purpose of uranium must have been stunned by the entry.
The identification that the uranium was stowed in gold-lined cylinders and that it would become "sensitive and dangerous" when unpacked provides clear substantiation of radio officer Hirschfeld's assertion that the uranium was labeled with the title U235. Uranium that has had its proportion of the isotope U235 increased compared to the more common isotope of uranium, U238, is known as enriched uranium. When that enrichment becomes 70 percent or above, it is bomb-grade uranium. The process of enriching uranium during the war was highly technical and very expensive - it still is.
Upon first reading that the uranium on board U-234 was stored in gold-lined cylinders, this author tracked down Clarence Larsen, former director of the leading uranium enrichment process at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where the Manhattan Project's uranium enrichment facilities were housed. In a telephone conversation, I asked Mr. Larsen what, if anything, would be the purpose of shipping uranium in gold-lined containers.
Mr. Larsen remembered that the Oak Ridge program used gold trays when working with enriched uranium. He explained that, because uranium enrichment was a very costly process, enriched uranium needed to be protected jealously, but because it is very corrosive, it is easily invaded by any but the most stable materials, and would then become contaminated. To prevent the loss to contamination of the invaluable enriched uranium, gold was used. Gold is one of the most stable substances on earth. While expensive, Mr. Larsen explained, the cost of gold was a drop in the bucket compared to the value of enriched uranium. Would raw uranium, rather than enriched uranium, be stored in gold containers, I asked? Not likely, Mr. Larsen responded. The value of raw uranium is, and was at the time, inconsequential compared to the cost of gold.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/atomicbomb/chap01.htm

Nuclear technology is constantly in the news. So how exactly do you make nuclear fuel?
Special thanks to Life Noggin for animating this video! Check them out: http://www.youtube.com/lifenoggin
Read More:
Fuel Cycle Facilities
http://www.nrc.gov/materials/fuel-cycle-fac.html
“The U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulates uranium recovery facilities that mill uranium; fuel cycle facilities that convert, enrich, and fabricate it into fuel for use in nuclear reactors, and deconversion facilities that process the depleted uranium hexafluoride for disposal.”
Uranium processing
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/619232/uranium-processing
“Uranium (U), although very dense (19.1 grams per cubic centimetre), is a relatively weak, nonrefractory metal. Indeed, the metallic properties of uranium appear to be intermediate between those of silver and other true metals and those of the nonmetallic elements, so that it is not valued for structural applications.”
About Nuclear Fuel Cycle
https://infcis.iaea.org/NFCIS/About.cshtml
“Nuclear Fuel Cycle can be defined as the set of processes to make use of nuclear materials and to return it to normal state. It starts with the mining of unused nuclear materials from the nature and ends with the safe disposal of used nuclear material in the nature.”
Nuclear Fuel Processes
http://www.nei.org/Knowledge-Center/Nuclear-Fuel-Processes
“Nuclear power plants do not burn any fuel. Instead, they use uranium fuel, consisting of solid ceramic pellets, to produce electricity through a process called fission.”
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Nuclear technology is constantly in the news. So how exactly do you make nuclear fuel?
Special thanks to Life Noggin for animating this video! Check them out: http://www.youtube.com/lifenoggin
Read More:
Fuel Cycle Facilities
http://www.nrc.gov/materials/fuel-cycle-fac.html
“The U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulates uranium recovery facilities that mill uranium; fuel cycle facilities that convert, enrich, and fabricate it into fuel for use in nuclear reactors, and deconversion facilities that process the depleted uranium hexafluoride for disposal.”
Uranium processing
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/619232/uranium-processing
“Uranium (U), although very dense (19.1 grams per cubic centimetre), is a relatively weak, nonrefractory metal. Indeed, the metallic properties of uranium appear to be intermediate between those of silver and other true metals and those of the nonmetallic elements, so that it is not valued for structural applications.”
About Nuclear Fuel Cycle
https://infcis.iaea.org/NFCIS/About.cshtml
“Nuclear Fuel Cycle can be defined as the set of processes to make use of nuclear materials and to return it to normal state. It starts with the mining of unused nuclear materials from the nature and ends with the safe disposal of used nuclear material in the nature.”
Nuclear Fuel Processes
http://www.nei.org/Knowledge-Center/Nuclear-Fuel-Processes
“Nuclear power plants do not burn any fuel. Instead, they use uranium fuel, consisting of solid ceramic pellets, to produce electricity through a process called fission.”
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What is Uranium?

In this informational video, I will introduce you to what Uranium is, its properties (both physical and chemical), the history and discovery around it, and its ...

In this informational video, I will introduce you to what Uranium is, its properties (both physical and chemical), the history and discovery around it, and its uses in the modern day. The information moves quickly, so make sure to pay attention!
This is just a brief explanation as to what Uranium is, there is a lot more information on Uranium on the Internet.
Sorry for messing up the audio for the first half of the video, and also for any mess-ups when converting text to speech with my voice.
Sources:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B08SrD985jkQY0pVZHpKZU9YUE0
Disclaimer: As mentioned in the video, I do not own any content used here, and do not claim any of it as my own work, other than my voice. This is a simple research project I did for my Chemistry class, I do not intend to be infringing on copyrights.
Music: Show Me How This ThingWorks by Cracker

In this informational video, I will introduce you to what Uranium is, its properties (both physical and chemical), the history and discovery around it, and its uses in the modern day. The information moves quickly, so make sure to pay attention!
This is just a brief explanation as to what Uranium is, there is a lot more information on Uranium on the Internet.
Sorry for messing up the audio for the first half of the video, and also for any mess-ups when converting text to speech with my voice.
Sources:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B08SrD985jkQY0pVZHpKZU9YUE0
Disclaimer: As mentioned in the video, I do not own any content used here, and do not claim any of it as my own work, other than my voice. This is a simple research project I did for my Chemistry class, I do not intend to be infringing on copyrights.
Music: Show Me How This ThingWorks by Cracker

Isolation of Uranium Yellowcake from Ore

In this video, uranium is concentrated from its ore through a series of precipitations, which eventually yields a form of yellowcake, uranyl peroxide. Please re...

In this video, uranium is concentrated from its ore through a series of precipitations, which eventually yields a form of yellowcake, uranyl peroxide. Please remember to take proper precautions when working with a radioactive heavy metal such as uranium and its salts. Gloves, eye protection, and a dust mask are necessary.
For processing, uranium ore is dissolved into hydrochloric acid, oxidized with bleach, precipitated with ammonia, filtered, leached with carbonate, filtered, neutralized with hydrochloric acid, precipitated with hydrogen peroxide, and filtered.
The uranium produced by this procedure could in no way be considered weapons-grade or enriched. The enrichment process requires millions of dollars in investment and is impossible for any entity short of a national government to produce. This uranium maintains the isotopic ratio found within the earth's crust and is actually less radioactive than the ore from which it was processed due to the absence of more radioactive decay products of uranium, such as radium, protactinium, and other unstable nuclei produced by the spontaneous fission of U238.
Though ore chemistry varies by locality, this process is generalized for any uranium on an acid-soluble matrix.
This process was inspired by and based off of: http://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/uranium-chemistry/

In this video, uranium is concentrated from its ore through a series of precipitations, which eventually yields a form of yellowcake, uranyl peroxide. Please remember to take proper precautions when working with a radioactive heavy metal such as uranium and its salts. Gloves, eye protection, and a dust mask are necessary.
For processing, uranium ore is dissolved into hydrochloric acid, oxidized with bleach, precipitated with ammonia, filtered, leached with carbonate, filtered, neutralized with hydrochloric acid, precipitated with hydrogen peroxide, and filtered.
The uranium produced by this procedure could in no way be considered weapons-grade or enriched. The enrichment process requires millions of dollars in investment and is impossible for any entity short of a national government to produce. This uranium maintains the isotopic ratio found within the earth's crust and is actually less radioactive than the ore from which it was processed due to the absence of more radioactive decay products of uranium, such as radium, protactinium, and other unstable nuclei produced by the spontaneous fission of U238.
Though ore chemistry varies by locality, this process is generalized for any uranium on an acid-soluble matrix.
This process was inspired by and based off of: http://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/uranium-chemistry/

finding uranium in nature

i went to saxony (a part of germany) to find uranium 'in the wild' at abandoned uranium mines, dig sites and stockpiles.
due to the increased uranium content...

i went to saxony (a part of germany) to find uranium 'in the wild' at abandoned uranium mines, dig sites and stockpiles.
due to the increased uranium content in the earth's surface, saxony is a lot more irradiated than berlin, as you can clearly see in the video (although there are other means of contamination - such as the chernobyl accident - that can also be a cause for increased background radiation).
this video also includes a visit to the uranium mine 'MARKUS SEMMLER' and, of course, me digging for (and finding some) uranium minerals. =)
the radioactive minerals i found are uranocircite and autunite. they now have a new caring and loving home at my place.
ps: i know it's not just uranium in there but a lot of other radionuclides that are within the decay chain, as well as the endproduct - stable lead. i just called it all 'uranium' for simplicity. :-)
MUSIC: KRAFTWERK - RADIOACTIVITY
www.kraftwerk.de

i went to saxony (a part of germany) to find uranium 'in the wild' at abandoned uranium mines, dig sites and stockpiles.
due to the increased uranium content in the earth's surface, saxony is a lot more irradiated than berlin, as you can clearly see in the video (although there are other means of contamination - such as the chernobyl accident - that can also be a cause for increased background radiation).
this video also includes a visit to the uranium mine 'MARKUS SEMMLER' and, of course, me digging for (and finding some) uranium minerals. =)
the radioactive minerals i found are uranocircite and autunite. they now have a new caring and loving home at my place.
ps: i know it's not just uranium in there but a lot of other radionuclides that are within the decay chain, as well as the endproduct - stable lead. i just called it all 'uranium' for simplicity. :-)
MUSIC: KRAFTWERK - RADIOACTIVITY
www.kraftwerk.de

What can you do with 1 Kg of uranium?

Because of Uranium's long half-life, it can be used to find the age of earth. Uranium can also be used to make coloured glass that glow under UV light and it's ...

Because of Uranium's long half-life, it can be used to find the age of earth. Uranium can also be used to make coloured glass that glow under UV light and it's glass form is the perfect colour for dentures.
More importantly, Uranium is used in power plants. 1 KG of U-235 can produce 80 TJ of energy which is enough energy to drive your car as you normally do for 1000 years. U-235 in power plants are only 3% enriched (i.e. there is only 3% U-235 in the rod) which is small compared to 90% needed in nuclear weapons.
A nuclear bomb uses 7-13 KG of U-235 which is a lot of concentrated energy. A thermonuclear bomb is just like a nuclear (fission) bomb but with a cylinder of hydrogen that gets compressed by the Uranium explosion. This compression causes the hydrogen to undergo fusion reaction.
Before Uranium can be used in a nuclear reaction though, it must first be refined. The modern refining methods require centrifuges that push the heavier U-238 to the edges of and the lighter U-235 to stay in the middle. It costs a lot of money to build and maintain these centrifuges which is why nuclear power is mainly limited to wealthier countries.
Depleted uranium (DU) has low amounts of radioactivity. Because of DU's high density, it is used for bullets, armour plating, and even plating to prevent xrays from penetrating walls.

Because of Uranium's long half-life, it can be used to find the age of earth. Uranium can also be used to make coloured glass that glow under UV light and it's glass form is the perfect colour for dentures.
More importantly, Uranium is used in power plants. 1 KG of U-235 can produce 80 TJ of energy which is enough energy to drive your car as you normally do for 1000 years. U-235 in power plants are only 3% enriched (i.e. there is only 3% U-235 in the rod) which is small compared to 90% needed in nuclear weapons.
A nuclear bomb uses 7-13 KG of U-235 which is a lot of concentrated energy. A thermonuclear bomb is just like a nuclear (fission) bomb but with a cylinder of hydrogen that gets compressed by the Uranium explosion. This compression causes the hydrogen to undergo fusion reaction.
Before Uranium can be used in a nuclear reaction though, it must first be refined. The modern refining methods require centrifuges that push the heavier U-238 to the edges of and the lighter U-235 to stay in the middle. It costs a lot of money to build and maintain these centrifuges which is why nuclear power is mainly limited to wealthier countries.
Depleted uranium (DU) has low amounts of radioactivity. Because of DU's high density, it is used for bullets, armour plating, and even plating to prevent xrays from penetrating walls.

The Ocean Holds Enough Uranium To Power The Planet For 10,000 Years

Stanford University researchers have found a new way to extract particles of Uranium from seawater. Could this bring us closer to sustainable nuclear power?
...

Stanford University researchers have found a new way to extract particles of Uranium from seawater. Could this bring us closer to sustainable nuclear power?
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Seawater Could Provide an 'Endless' Source of Uranium for Nuclear Plants
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"You might be surprised to find out that very small amounts of uranium are found in seawater. A liter of seawater contains about a grain of salt's worth of the material. In a new article in the journal NatureEnergy, a team of researchers from Stanford detailed their novel technique for extracting it, which could lead to a practical approach to pull uranium from seawater instead of mining it (and then refining it) to power a nuclear power plant."
Nuclear FuelFrom the Sea
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/nuclear-fuel-from-the-sea
"Next time you go to the beach, think about this: You're swimming in nuclear fuel. Our oceans contain an estimated 4.5 billion metric tons of uranium, diluted down to a minuscule 3.3 parts per billion. The idea of extracting uranium from seawater has been kicking around for decades now, but the materials and processes to do so may finally be economically viable."
We're One Step Closer to Pulling Nuclear Fuel Straight Out of the Ocean
http://www.sciencealert.com/we-re-one-step-closer-to-pulling-nuclear-fuel-straight-out-of-the-ocean
"Pulling uranium out of seawater could be a cost-effective way to source nuclear fuel, scientists have found, and the technique could pave the way for coastal countries to switch to nuclear power. With the International Atomic Energy Agency currently predicting an increase of up to 68 percent in nuclear power production over the next 15 years, finding a new, more environmentally friendly source of uranium - the most critical ingredient in nuclear power - could give this alternative to fossil fuels a boost."
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Stanford University researchers have found a new way to extract particles of Uranium from seawater. Could this bring us closer to sustainable nuclear power?
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"You might be surprised to find out that very small amounts of uranium are found in seawater. A liter of seawater contains about a grain of salt's worth of the material. In a new article in the journal NatureEnergy, a team of researchers from Stanford detailed their novel technique for extracting it, which could lead to a practical approach to pull uranium from seawater instead of mining it (and then refining it) to power a nuclear power plant."
Nuclear FuelFrom the Sea
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/nuclear-fuel-from-the-sea
"Next time you go to the beach, think about this: You're swimming in nuclear fuel. Our oceans contain an estimated 4.5 billion metric tons of uranium, diluted down to a minuscule 3.3 parts per billion. The idea of extracting uranium from seawater has been kicking around for decades now, but the materials and processes to do so may finally be economically viable."
We're One Step Closer to Pulling Nuclear Fuel Straight Out of the Ocean
http://www.sciencealert.com/we-re-one-step-closer-to-pulling-nuclear-fuel-straight-out-of-the-ocean
"Pulling uranium out of seawater could be a cost-effective way to source nuclear fuel, scientists have found, and the technique could pave the way for coastal countries to switch to nuclear power. With the International Atomic Energy Agency currently predicting an increase of up to 68 percent in nuclear power production over the next 15 years, finding a new, more environmentally friendly source of uranium - the most critical ingredient in nuclear power - could give this alternative to fossil fuels a boost."
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Uranium: The Boogieman of Rare Metals

We already know that uranium is the basis of most of nuclear reactions. It consists of two major isotopes: the 235 and 238. Uranium 238 can be found abundantly ...

We already know that uranium is the basis of most of nuclear reactions. It consists of two major isotopes: the 235 and 238. Uranium 238 can be found abundantly in nature, while 235 isotope is much more rare. Ironically, the rare Uranium 235 is the one needed for most nuclear reactions. Fortunately, the separation of uranium isotope is very complicated, that is why only few Countries can afford it. Meanwhile, chemists and physicists prefer to use depleted form of uranium for laboratory use since it only contains about 0,2% of real thing.

We already know that uranium is the basis of most of nuclear reactions. It consists of two major isotopes: the 235 and 238. Uranium 238 can be found abundantly in nature, while 235 isotope is much more rare. Ironically, the rare Uranium 235 is the one needed for most nuclear reactions. Fortunately, the separation of uranium isotope is very complicated, that is why only few Countries can afford it. Meanwhile, chemists and physicists prefer to use depleted form of uranium for laboratory use since it only contains about 0,2% of real thing.

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Uranium - Periodic Table of Videos

See some real life uranium in this new video about element number 92 - the so-called "bogeyman of the periodic table".
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See some real life uranium in this new video about element number 92 - the so-called "bogeyman of the periodic table".
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Pokemon Uranium Is Back! W/ Exclusive Interview!

Its official, the servers are back up and development will continue!
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Its official, the servers are back up and development will continue!
Website: http://pokemonuranium.org/
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For more be sure to check out our website at
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Its official, the servers are back up and development will continue!
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Discord: https://discord.gg/uranium
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Check out also BBC Horizon's 1992 documentary Hitler's Bombhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt2373189/
Critical MassThe Real Story Of The Birth Of The Atomic Bomb And The Nuclear Age
by Carter P. Hydrick, 1998ISBN: 0975985310
Crates being loaded onto the submarine were marked U-235WolfgangHirschfeld reportedly watched the loading into the boat's cylindrical mine shafts of about 50 lead cubes with nine inch (230 mm) sides, with "U-235" painted on each.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-234#Cargo
09:20 - mentions some of the cargo - military blueprints and crated ME-262 jet fighter
16:50 Plutonium gets a mention
42:00 - Later in the documentary the cargo is on the manifest as 560kg (half a ton) of Uranium Oxide
So which was it? Uranium Oxide (mixed U-238 & U-235) or U-235?
The traditional history of the atomic bomb accepts as an unimportant footnote the arrival of U-234 on United States shores, and admits the U-boat carried uranium oxide.
The traditional history denies, however, that the uranium on board U-234 was enriched and therefore easily usable in an atomic bomb. The accepted history asserts there is no evidence that the uranium stocks of U-234 were transferred into the Manhattan Project, although recent suggestions have hinted that this may have occurred. And the traditional history asserts that the bomb components on board U-234 arrived too late to be included in the atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan. The documentation indicates quite differently on all accounts.
Before U-234 had landed at Portsmouth - before it even left Europe - United States and British intelligence knew U-234 was on a mission to Japan and that it carried important passengers and cargo.iv A portion of the cargo, especially, was of a singular nature. According to U-234's chief radio operator, Wolfgang Hirschfeld, who witnessed the loading of the U-boat: 'At the time I didn't see how many containers there were, but the Loading Manifest showed ten. Each case was a cube, possibly steel and lead, nine inches along each side and enormously heavy. Once the inscription U235 had been painted on the wrapping of a package, it would then be carried over to the knot of crewmen under the supervision of Sub-Lt Pfaff and the boatswain, Peter Scholch, and stowed in one of the six vertical mineshafts.'
Hirschfeld's straightforward account of the uranium being "highly radioactive" - he later witnessed the storage tubes being tested with Geiger counters,vi - and labeled "U235" provides profoundly important information about this cargo. U235 is the scientific designation of enriched uranium - the type of uranium required to fuel an atomic bomb. On the second page of U-234's cargo manifest, halfway down the page, was the entry "10 cases, 560 kilograms, uranium oxide."
Whoever first read the entry and understood the frightening capabilities and potential purpose of uranium must have been stunned by the entry.
The identification that the uranium was stowed in gold-lined cylinders and that it would become "sensitive and dangerous" when unpacked provides clear substantiation of radio officer Hirschfeld's assertion that the uranium was labeled with the title U235. Uranium that has had its proportion of the isotope U235 increased compared to the more common isotope of uranium, U238, is known as enriched uranium. When that enrichment becomes 70 percent or above, it is bomb-grade uranium. The process of enriching uranium during the war was highly technical and very expensive - it still is.
Upon first reading that the uranium on board U-234 was stored in gold-lined cylinders, this author tracked down Clarence Larsen, former director of the leading uranium enrichment process at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where the Manhattan Project's uranium enrichment facilities were housed. In a telephone conversation, I asked Mr. Larsen what, if anything, would be the purpose of shipping uranium in gold-lined containers.
Mr. Larsen remembered that the Oak Ridge program used gold trays when working with enriched uranium. He explained that, because uranium enrichment was a very costly process, enriched uranium needed to be protected jealously, but because it is very corrosive, it is easily invaded by any but the most stable materials, and would then become contaminated. To prevent the loss to contamination of the invaluable enriched uranium, gold was used. Gold is one of the most stable substances on earth. While expensive, Mr. Larsen explained, the cost of gold was a drop in the bucket compared to the value of enriched uranium. Would raw uranium, rather than enriched uranium, be stored in gold containers, I asked? Not likely, Mr. Larsen responded. The value of raw uranium is, and was at the time, inconsequential compared to the cost of gold.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/atomicbomb/chap01.htm

5:51

How Uranium Becomes Nuclear Fuel

Nuclear technology is constantly in the news. So how exactly do you make nuclear fuel?
...

How Uranium Becomes Nuclear Fuel

Nuclear technology is constantly in the news. So how exactly do you make nuclear fuel?
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Fuel Cycle Facilities
http://www.nrc.gov/materials/fuel-cycle-fac.html
“The U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulates uranium recovery facilities that mill uranium; fuel cycle facilities that convert, enrich, and fabricate it into fuel for use in nuclear reactors, and deconversion facilities that process the depleted uranium hexafluoride for disposal.”
Uranium processing
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/619232/uranium-processing
“Uranium (U), although very dense (19.1 grams per cubic centimetre), is a relatively weak, nonrefractory metal. Indeed, the metallic properties of uranium appear to be intermediate between those of silver and other true metals and those of the nonmetallic elements, so that it is not valued for structural applications.”
About Nuclear Fuel Cycle
https://infcis.iaea.org/NFCIS/About.cshtml
“Nuclear Fuel Cycle can be defined as the set of processes to make use of nuclear materials and to return it to normal state. It starts with the mining of unused nuclear materials from the nature and ends with the safe disposal of used nuclear material in the nature.”
Nuclear Fuel Processes
http://www.nei.org/Knowledge-Center/Nuclear-Fuel-Processes
“Nuclear power plants do not burn any fuel. Instead, they use uranium fuel, consisting of solid ceramic pellets, to produce electricity through a process called fission.”
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What is Uranium?

In this informational video, I will introduce you to what Uranium is, its properties (both...

What is Uranium?

In this informational video, I will introduce you to what Uranium is, its properties (both physical and chemical), the history and discovery around it, and its uses in the modern day. The information moves quickly, so make sure to pay attention!
This is just a brief explanation as to what Uranium is, there is a lot more information on Uranium on the Internet.
Sorry for messing up the audio for the first half of the video, and also for any mess-ups when converting text to speech with my voice.
Sources:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B08SrD985jkQY0pVZHpKZU9YUE0
Disclaimer: As mentioned in the video, I do not own any content used here, and do not claim any of it as my own work, other than my voice. This is a simple research project I did for my Chemistry class, I do not intend to be infringing on copyrights.
Music: Show Me How This ThingWorks by Cracker

6:43

Isolation of Uranium Yellowcake from Ore

In this video, uranium is concentrated from its ore through a series of precipitations, wh...

Isolation of Uranium Yellowcake from Ore

In this video, uranium is concentrated from its ore through a series of precipitations, which eventually yields a form of yellowcake, uranyl peroxide. Please remember to take proper precautions when working with a radioactive heavy metal such as uranium and its salts. Gloves, eye protection, and a dust mask are necessary.
For processing, uranium ore is dissolved into hydrochloric acid, oxidized with bleach, precipitated with ammonia, filtered, leached with carbonate, filtered, neutralized with hydrochloric acid, precipitated with hydrogen peroxide, and filtered.
The uranium produced by this procedure could in no way be considered weapons-grade or enriched. The enrichment process requires millions of dollars in investment and is impossible for any entity short of a national government to produce. This uranium maintains the isotopic ratio found within the earth's crust and is actually less radioactive than the ore from which it was processed due to the absence of more radioactive decay products of uranium, such as radium, protactinium, and other unstable nuclei produced by the spontaneous fission of U238.
Though ore chemistry varies by locality, this process is generalized for any uranium on an acid-soluble matrix.
This process was inspired by and based off of: http://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/uranium-chemistry/

finding uranium in nature

i went to saxony (a part of germany) to find uranium 'in the wild' at abandoned uranium mines, dig sites and stockpiles.
due to the increased uranium content in the earth's surface, saxony is a lot more irradiated than berlin, as you can clearly see in the video (although there are other means of contamination - such as the chernobyl accident - that can also be a cause for increased background radiation).
this video also includes a visit to the uranium mine 'MARKUS SEMMLER' and, of course, me digging for (and finding some) uranium minerals. =)
the radioactive minerals i found are uranocircite and autunite. they now have a new caring and loving home at my place.
ps: i know it's not just uranium in there but a lot of other radionuclides that are within the decay chain, as well as the endproduct - stable lead. i just called it all 'uranium' for simplicity. :-)
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What can you do with 1 Kg of uranium?

Because of Uranium's long half-life, it can be used to find the age of earth. Uranium can also be used to make coloured glass that glow under UV light and it's glass form is the perfect colour for dentures.
More importantly, Uranium is used in power plants. 1 KG of U-235 can produce 80 TJ of energy which is enough energy to drive your car as you normally do for 1000 years. U-235 in power plants are only 3% enriched (i.e. there is only 3% U-235 in the rod) which is small compared to 90% needed in nuclear weapons.
A nuclear bomb uses 7-13 KG of U-235 which is a lot of concentrated energy. A thermonuclear bomb is just like a nuclear (fission) bomb but with a cylinder of hydrogen that gets compressed by the Uranium explosion. This compression causes the hydrogen to undergo fusion reaction.
Before Uranium can be used in a nuclear reaction though, it must first be refined. The modern refining methods require centrifuges that push the heavier U-238 to the edges of and the lighter U-235 to stay in the middle. It costs a lot of money to build and maintain these centrifuges which is why nuclear power is mainly limited to wealthier countries.
Depleted uranium (DU) has low amounts of radioactivity. Because of DU's high density, it is used for bullets, armour plating, and even plating to prevent xrays from penetrating walls.

3:41

The Ocean Holds Enough Uranium To Power The Planet For 10,000 Years

Stanford University researchers have found a new way to extract particles of Uranium from ...

The Ocean Holds Enough Uranium To Power The Planet For 10,000 Years

Stanford University researchers have found a new way to extract particles of Uranium from seawater. Could this bring us closer to sustainable nuclear power?
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Seawater Could Provide an 'Endless' Source of Uranium for Nuclear Plants
http://www.seeker.com/seawater-could-provide-an-endless-source-of-uranium-for-nuclear-plants-2276514732.html
"You might be surprised to find out that very small amounts of uranium are found in seawater. A liter of seawater contains about a grain of salt's worth of the material. In a new article in the journal NatureEnergy, a team of researchers from Stanford detailed their novel technique for extracting it, which could lead to a practical approach to pull uranium from seawater instead of mining it (and then refining it) to power a nuclear power plant."
Nuclear FuelFrom the Sea
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/nuclear-fuel-from-the-sea
"Next time you go to the beach, think about this: You're swimming in nuclear fuel. Our oceans contain an estimated 4.5 billion metric tons of uranium, diluted down to a minuscule 3.3 parts per billion. The idea of extracting uranium from seawater has been kicking around for decades now, but the materials and processes to do so may finally be economically viable."
We're One Step Closer to Pulling Nuclear Fuel Straight Out of the Ocean
http://www.sciencealert.com/we-re-one-step-closer-to-pulling-nuclear-fuel-straight-out-of-the-ocean
"Pulling uranium out of seawater could be a cost-effective way to source nuclear fuel, scientists have found, and the technique could pave the way for coastal countries to switch to nuclear power. With the International Atomic Energy Agency currently predicting an increase of up to 68 percent in nuclear power production over the next 15 years, finding a new, more environmentally friendly source of uranium - the most critical ingredient in nuclear power - could give this alternative to fossil fuels a boost."
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Uranium: The Boogieman of Rare Metals

We already know that uranium is the basis of most of nuclear reactions. It consists of two...

Uranium: The Boogieman of Rare Metals

We already know that uranium is the basis of most of nuclear reactions. It consists of two major isotopes: the 235 and 238. Uranium 238 can be found abundantly in nature, while 235 isotope is much more rare. Ironically, the rare Uranium 235 is the one needed for most nuclear reactions. Fortunately, the separation of uranium isotope is very complicated, that is why only few Countries can afford it. Meanwhile, chemists and physicists prefer to use depleted form of uranium for laboratory use since it only contains about 0,2% of real thing.

2:48

HOW TO DOWNLOAD POKEMON URANIUM ON WINDOWS/MAC 2017 (UPDATED AND NO LAG)

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6:03

Uranium - Periodic Table of Videos

See some real life uranium in this new video about element number 92 - the so-called "bog...

Uranium - Periodic Table of Videos

See some real life uranium in this new video about element number 92 - the so-called "bogeyman of the periodic table".
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BREAKING: Obama Approved Uranium For Export(VIDEO)!!!

Obama approved uanium for export. The Obama administration has been exposed approving the ...

Pokemon Uranium Is Back! W/ Exclusive Interview!

Its official, the servers are back up and development will continue!
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It turns out that a theory explaining how we might detect parallel universes and prediction for the end of the world was proposed and completed by physicist Stephen Hawking shortly before he died ... &nbsp;. According to reports, the work predicts that the universe would eventually end when stars run out of energy ... ....

Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas DarlingIt wasn’t very long ago Republicans were accusing Democrats of either paying a few dollars to the homeless for votes or giving them a pack of cigarettes. But with Donald Trump, it’s obvious he paid $130,000 to an adult-film star in exchange for her silence last October and just before the general election ... Was the payment from his own account – or from a lawyer – or from campaign donations....

Using e-cigarettes may lead to an accumulation of fat in the liver, a study of mice exposed to the devices suggests. “The popularity of electronic cigarettes has been rapidly increasing in part because of advertisements that they are safer than conventional cigarettes ... Friedman of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, California ... Circadian rhythm dysfunction is known to accelerate liver disease....

... seabed near the construction site, the dangers posed by the possibility of volcanic eruptions in the area and concerns about using only mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel, consisting of plutonium and uranium, as nuclear fuel....

More than 1,100 residents in Hokkaido, among others, had filed the lawsuit in 2010 to prevent Ohma from starting. The construction of the 1,383-megawatt plant, which will use mixed oxide fuel, a blend of uranium and plutonium recycled from spent nuclear fuel, started in 2008, but work was suspended after Fukushima in 2011... ....

Handing down the ruling in the HakodateDistrict Court, presiding JudgeChikako Asaoka said the nation’s new regulatory standards on nuclear plants cannot be regarded as inadequate ... The main issues in the lawsuit were the existence of active faults around the site and the safety of the Oma plant, which is planned to use only mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel, a blend of uranium and plutonium extracted from spent nuclear fuel ... Click to play ... ....

The latest example of this is the US state of Wyoming where the legislator has recently approved a host of new measures meant to attract cryptocurrency business ... According to the US Energy Information Administration, Wyoming produces about 40% of all coal mined in the country, has the largest uranium mining operations in the country, is one of the top 10 natural gas-producing states, and has a rapidly growing wind power capacity ... ....

Pompeo's first job is to make sure Trump understands one thing going into those talks. North Korea has no plans to give up its nuclear weapons at the negotiating table. Kim knows what happened to Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi when, after the capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, he handed the entire Libyan nuclear weapons program — the uranium, the centrifuges, the designs to build bombs — over to the United States for secure storage....

Pompeo’s first job is to make sure Trump understands one thing going into those talks. North Korea has no plans to give up its nuclear weapons at the negotiating table. Kim knows what happened to Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi when, after the capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, he handed the entire Libyan nuclear weapons program — the uranium, the centrifuges, the designs to build bombs — over to the United States for secure storage ... ....

... decisions—which witnesses would come in; when they would come; and what open hearings we would have; what open hearings we wouldn’t have; what subpoenas would go out; what subpoenas wouldn’t go out—all of these sideshow investigations of FISA abuse and UraniumOne and all that—those were all decisions made by Chairman Nunes, not by Mike Conaway.”....

Environmentalists are seeking to keep an idle uranium mine in western New Mexico from becoming active again, saying the designation will allow it to delay cleanup ...The NavajoNation still is reeling from the decades that the federal government allowed uranium mining on and around its reservation. Between the late 1940s and the mid-1980s, about 4 million tons (3.6 million metric tons) of uranium were extracted from the Navajo Nation....

(AP) — Environmentalists are seeking to keep an idle uranium mine in western New Mexico from becoming active again, saying the designation will allow it to delay cleanup ...The NavajoNation still is reeling from the decades that the federal government allowed uranium mining on and around its reservation ... At the time, uranium was mined to produce nuclear weapons for World War II and the Cold War....

As the Iranian regime ramps up efforts to spread its malign influence in this region, failures at the core of the 2015 nuclear deal are being increasingly laid bare ... However, that is not an indefinite commitment, as the deal has a term limit. Tehran would agree to lower enrichment levels and uranium stockpiles, limit research and development and jettison nuclear-oriented ballistic missiles for a period of time ... ....

Pompeo's first job is to make sure Trump understands one thing going into those talks ... Kim knows what happened to Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi when, after the capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, he handed the entire Libyan nuclear weapons program — the uranium, the centrifuges, the designs to build bombs — over to the United States for secure storage ... In 2014, Russia invaded a denuclearized Ukraine and annexed Crimea ... ....